Morrisville Unified Development Ordinance_Sept 2023.1

Article 5: Development Standards Section 5.10. Parking and Loading 5.10.6. Off-Street Parking Arrangement and Design

b. A maximum of twenty (20) percent of a parcel’s street frontage can be occupied by surface parking as shown in Figure 5.10.6.B.1 On determining that it is impracticable to locate off-street surface vehicle parking in the side or rear yard only, the Planning Director may allow alternative locations and arrangements of the surface parking — provided that in addition to vehicle use area screening required by Section 5.12.4, Vehicle Use Area Landscaping, a Type G, Option 2 streetyard buffer shall be provided between a street and any surface vehicle parking located between it and the development’s principal building(s). (See Section 5.7, Perimeter and Streetyard Buffers.)

Figure 5.10.6.B.1: A maximum of twenty (20) percent of a block’s street frontage occupied as parking.

c . All developments shall incorporate a minimum of 50 percent of their parking areas into structured, podium, or underground parking facilities in the Transit Oriented Development district. In the Transit Oriented Development and Gateway Overlay the façade walls of structured parking facilities-facing a street shall include at least 50 percent brick, stone or rock, or tinted/textured concrete masonry units. These materials shall also occupy the entirety of the three (3) feet above the finished grade of the parking structure. Podium parking must face internal to the site and shall not be visible from adjacent major or minor thoroughfares or collector streets. (Ord. No. 2015-047, 07/28/2015, Ord. No. 2018-302-0, 09/11/2018) Town Center Districts a. For all development located in a Town Center District, all proposed new or additional surface vehicle parking with more than three spaces shall be located to the rear or side of the development’s principal building(s) to the maximum extent practicable— and not between the building(s) and abutting street(s). The Planning Director shall determine the practicability of such location based on, but not limited to, topography, lot configuration, existing utility locations, watercourses, riparian buffers, natural rock formations, or other site encumbrances. For already developed sites, the Planning Director shall also consider the location and orientation of existing buildings, building entrances, parking areas, and access and circulation patterns. b. On determining that it is impracticable to locate all proposed new or additional surface vehicle parking to the rear or side of the development’s principal building(s), the Planning Director may allow alternative locations and arrangements of the surface parking — provided that in addition to vehicle use area screening required by Section 5.12.4, Vehicle Use Area Landscaping, a Type G, Option 2 streetyard buffer shall be provided between a street and any surface vehicle parking located between it and the development’s principal building(s). (See Section 5.7, Perimeter and Streetyard Buffers.)

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Morrisville, NC

June 13, 2023

Unified Development Ordinance

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